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Daylight Saving Time Showdown · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 1: It's always good to get away for a few days.
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  Speaker 1: I've always wanted to go to Salem, Massachusetts. It's the
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  Speaker 1: weirdest fixation I have with the Salem witch trials and
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  Speaker 1: how collective hysteria can lead to the execution of 20 people.
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  Speaker 1: They hanged 19 women and men, and they pressed a
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  Speaker 1: guy to death, some 80-year-old.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't like him at all.
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  Speaker 2: Golly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but the stories behind all the executions are crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And Salem is one of those charming, picturesque, historic American
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  Speaker 1: towns right on the water.
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  Speaker 2: It's northeast of Boston. I've never been. I've always wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: So I was eager to hear.
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  Speaker 1: About your trip. Me too. I've always wanted to go.
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  Speaker 1: And it's October. They've now taken the whole month of
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  Speaker 1: October and turned it into a celebration of all things witches.
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  Speaker 2: Well, is there a Halloween connection there? Because if there's
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  Speaker 2: one thing I've learned, this town does enjoy having some
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  Speaker 2: fun with the history. The local high school nickname is
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  Speaker 2: The Witches.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a giant statue to bewitch the star Elizabeth Montgomery. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my gosh. Which is very controversial because the locals resent
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  Speaker 1: the heck out of it. Somebody once threw red paint
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  Speaker 1: on the statue because they feel it insults. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: remember this. No, no, please finish that sentence. They feel
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  Speaker 1: it insults real witches? What? It degrades the memory of
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  Speaker 1: the women and the men who were put to death. Oh, right.
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  Speaker 1: And it trivializes it. I didn't remember this. Did you
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  Speaker 1: remember that Bewitched was actually filmed for a whole season
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  Speaker 1: in Salem, Massachusetts? I'll bet you don't remember that. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't remember. I may throw down BS. Why in the
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  Speaker 1: world would they do that? Because the studio that they
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  Speaker 1: were filming Bewitched in burned to the ground and they
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  Speaker 1: needed to film somewhere and they decided to take it
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  Speaker 1: to Salem. No, it's not.
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  Speaker 2: So rather than stay in Los Angeles, let's go to Salem, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a bit because it was Salem, Massachusetts,
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  Speaker 1: home of the witchcraft trials and all that. All right. Well, Mark, no,
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  Speaker 1: it did happen.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe for an episode, but you're telling me
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  Speaker 2: an entire season of Bewitched was filmed in Salem, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: Do me a favor. Save your pomposity for 30 seconds,
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  Speaker 1: and let me educate you. Yes, Bewitched was filmed for
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  Speaker 1: an entire— Go right ahead, because you know what I'll
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  Speaker 1: be doing. You know what I'll be doing, so you
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  Speaker 1: just talk about it. Go look right now. All eight
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  Speaker 1: episodes for that particular season were filmed in Salem, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 2: Eight episodes. There was 39 episodes in the average TV
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  Speaker 2: season back then.
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  Speaker 1: It was a season of eight episodes, Smarty Pants, and
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  Speaker 1: they called it a season. I even know where they
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  Speaker 1: put Elizabeth Montgomery. She stayed at the Hawthorne Hotel. So, no,
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  Speaker 1: I just got back from there, Smarty. You think I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what I'm talking about? Okay, sure. So they
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  Speaker 1: build a statue to her and then they throw paint
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  Speaker 1: on it because they think it's degrading. Anyway, the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing is a blast. I mean, the town, it's this chart.
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  Speaker 1: And I love, I'm into history lately. I'm into these
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  Speaker 1: tours and these houses. You know, and I just handed
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  Speaker 1: out to the team here Gibraltar's Gibraltar's, the very first
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  Speaker 1: commercial candy ever in America made in Salem, Massachusetts by
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  Speaker 1: Mary Spencer. She started making them for the sailors that
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  Speaker 1: would go out to sea. And they're called Gibraltar's. They're
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  Speaker 1: like this weird they're like hard candy, lemon and peppermint.
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  Speaker 1: Coolest thing ever. So I've been giving those out to
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  Speaker 1: everybody today. Anyway, great to go. Great to be back.
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  Speaker 1: Did you find it? I see the little look on
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  Speaker 1: your face. Did you see it? I did.
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  Speaker 2: Asked TV critic Grok, was an entire season of Bewitched
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  Speaker 2: filmed in Salem, Massachusetts? Yes. Answer is no.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's where you're going to try to say it.
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  Speaker 1: You got me? Because eight episodes don't constitute a season?
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  Speaker 2: Because it doesn't. It was with it. Listen, be as
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  Speaker 2: right as you are, because you do have a point.
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  Speaker 1: I am right. And it's still kind of fun.
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  Speaker 2: In season seven, episodes three through ten, so a portion
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  Speaker 2: of that season, they did go Go to Salem for
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  Speaker 2: seven seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Eight episodes. You said, I'm calling BS. They didn't do...
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  Speaker 1: A season. And does it explain because the movies, the
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  Speaker 1: TV studio burned down? Looked at him, doubting Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: The trip happened after a fire damaged part of the
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  Speaker 2: Stevens house set in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: I'm called BS.
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  Speaker 2: I never doubted that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take 60 seconds and call BS. I never doubted that.
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  Speaker 2: I doubted the whole season, which.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, I was correct. I go away for a
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  Speaker 1: few days and you become incorrigible. You are so full
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  Speaker 1: of yourself, flying solo on the podcast while I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: I am back. He's back, baby. And, Mark, while I'm away,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching stuff on my phone. Zoran Mamdani's pro-Palestinian statement.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see where he went to dinner last night?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? I am. There is one
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: That's surprising.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Guess where he went to dinner?
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  Speaker 2: That one.
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  Speaker 1: That one. He went to dinner. That's subtle. Huh? How
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 2: For those that don't know, and this was after, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: after the show was over and the podcast was over yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: Zoran Mamdani. Islamist, Marxist, blah, blah, blah, puts out an
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  Speaker 2: October 7th statement. And the first paragraph is pretty darn great.
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  Speaker 2: It says, we mourn. This was terrible. We remember those
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  Speaker 2: lost in the October 7th attacks. And then for– perfunctory
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  Speaker 2: and phony. And then for like three straight paragraphs, it's like, however,
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  Speaker 2: the genocide in Gaza is also terrible. The lies, the anti-Semitism,
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  Speaker 2: and he just got roasted all day for it and,
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  Speaker 2: of course, did not care.
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  Speaker 1: And didn't care because, again, having dinner at your local
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  Speaker 1: friendly Palestinian restaurant. And then, of course– There's this hoax,
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  Speaker 1: this charade, the playbook we've seen a thousand times where
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  Speaker 1: they lie about something Trump said. And you know they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it. They don't believe a word that he
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  Speaker 1: wants Iran to nuke L.A. and San Diego. We've seen
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  Speaker 1: it over. And they take it. And they're the same
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  Speaker 1: people who line up behind figures like Trump. Mamdani, there's
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  Speaker 1: no hoax there. What he wrote about the genocide by
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  Speaker 1: Israel wasn't a hoax. Or Abdul El-Sayed, a guy who's
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  Speaker 1: cozy with extremists tied to the Iranian regime. But they
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  Speaker 1: feign outrage at Trump for saying, you just wait. Watch
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  Speaker 1: and see what would happen if they were to bomb L.A.
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  Speaker 1: or San Diego. Exactly. My dog knew what he meant,
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  Speaker 1: and I wondered so much. I so wished I missed it.
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  Speaker 2: If there's any time I missed you the most, it
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  Speaker 2: was that day, I guess, day before yesterday, where what
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  Speaker 2: he said was, he said, look, I know gas is expensive,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a small price to pay. Imagine the Iranians...
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles or San Diego. It's a small price to pay.
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  Speaker 2: And everybody, listen, all you have to have is a
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  Speaker 2: tiny brainstem to realize that's what he was talking about.
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  Speaker 2: A bunch of people with intellectual dishonesty cranked up to 12, said,
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  Speaker 2: look what he's doing. He's inviting the Iranians to attack
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles and San Diego. Is it just me, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: Was it a straw breaking the camel's back? Because listen,
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  Speaker 2: for 10 years, we've been used to the media culture
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  Speaker 2: lying about him, berating him, attacking him. There's something about
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  Speaker 2: this one that was so malicious, so intentional. I found
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  Speaker 2: it And Gavin Newsom, J.D. Pritzker, this is disqualifying for
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States. And anybody saying this on
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  Speaker 2: TV should like take a month off or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: There's something about this one that really hit me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it hit a lot of Americans wrong. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it's because we instinctively recognize what contempt they have
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  Speaker 1: for the American people. Do you realize how they're insulting
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence department? Of every man and woman who could
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  Speaker 1: absorb what Trump said, know what he said, know the context.
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  Speaker 1: Even ABC said it. I mean, I couldn't believe it
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  Speaker 1: the other night. ABC posted very accurately that he is
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  Speaker 1: pointing out how awful it would be if Iran nuked
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  Speaker 1: an American city. ABC. But here's the mayor of Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Karen Bass. calling on the House Oversight and Government
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  Speaker 1: Reform Committee to investigate the dangerous threats that President Trump
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  Speaker 1: has encouraged against Angelenos. I saw that goofy Anna Navarro. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know who's in Los Angeles and San Diego. Latinos.
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  Speaker 2: Brown people.
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  Speaker 1: Brown people. He wants to nuke brown people. But they're
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  Speaker 1: such bald-faced liars. But they have such disdain for the
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  Speaker 1: American people. You do know they have to think we're just–
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  Speaker 1: their lemmings are so stupid that they would buy them. True.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the gamble they're making because X percent of
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  Speaker 2: the American people are either a stupid or more likely–
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  Speaker 2: just inattentive or maybe all they watch is the view
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  Speaker 2: or all they do is catch somebody's stupid twitter feed
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  Speaker 2: even the people who hate trump's guts on twitter like
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  Speaker 2: jonah goldberg got this right but if somebody was just
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  Speaker 2: one of those folks who's just paying marginal residual attention
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  Speaker 2: and they saw this then maybe they believe it and
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  Speaker 2: that's their bargain and they figured it was worth be
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  Speaker 2: clowning themselves in order to maybe uh flip a few
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  Speaker 2: votes well that's.
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  Speaker 1: A good way to put it because it's humiliating that
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  Speaker 1: they would even go down that path and it's pathetic
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  Speaker 1: But meanwhile, on the other side of the aisle, we
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  Speaker 1: got folks like Marco Rubio. Tell me you saw his
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  Speaker 1: speech every minute of it.
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  Speaker 2: Every minute of it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, this guy's the real deal.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: Every time he opens his mouth, more and more Americans
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  Speaker 1: are saying, could that be our next president?
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  Speaker 2: I would love it. And yet, and yet, I won't
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  Speaker 2: run if my friend J.D. does, which I understand. He's
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  Speaker 2: got to get over that. He's got to get over that.
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  Speaker 2: I want the choice.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a master class about how we should
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  Speaker 1: not be ashamed to be proud of our country. We
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  Speaker 1: should not. that nationalism is not a dirty word. Pride
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  Speaker 1: in your country, and he did it at the birthplace
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  Speaker 1: of Western civilization. It was so powerful. Although there is
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  Speaker 1: that little pesky issue of Kimberly Guilfoyle.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Are you following that story?
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  Speaker 2: Did she make a request of somebody of something in
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  Speaker 2: conjunction with her ambassadorship?
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  Speaker 1: $ 100, 000. Send that to my Amex and they'll never catch
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  Speaker 1: the money. Oh, boy. That's a rough story. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if it's true. I was reading about it just
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  Speaker 1: a moment ago in the Daily Caller. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how that thing unfolds.
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, real quick. Our level of caring about a
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Guilfoyle story?
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  Speaker 1: Well, she's the ambassador to Greece. So she's also, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a former Fox News star.
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  Speaker 2: And a former girlfriend of Don Jr., right?
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  Speaker 1: That's right. And Gavin Newsom, right?
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  Speaker 2: Correct, yeah. So she gets around. She's bipartisan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's everywhere. But speaking of Fox News, has it
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  Speaker 1: been fun to watch their 30th anniversary stuff this week?
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  Speaker 2: It has. They ran a feature on The Five and,
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: first of all, showed old pictures of Greg and Jesse.
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  Speaker 2: They're babies of Dana Perino, who just doesn't age. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what she's doing. And then they had this
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  Speaker 2: little feature of employees you never know, never know the
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  Speaker 2: names of, just talking about the technology. of 1996 running
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  Speaker 2: a news network. You remember the movie Broadcast News? They
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  Speaker 2: even showed a little clip of that with Holly Hunter
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  Speaker 2: and William Hurt. Instead of just hitting a button and
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  Speaker 2: sending an email or running a story, you had to
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  Speaker 2: take a big clunky videotape and run it a mile
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  Speaker 2: down a hallway and trip over people and spill coffee
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  Speaker 2: in order to put it in a big clunky bay
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  Speaker 2: and hit a button and play it on TV. It's
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  Speaker 2: like stone knives and bear skins. I can only imagine.
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  Speaker 1: And it's fun because I remember those days so fondly
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  Speaker 1: because I was a contributor kind of early on. Spent
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  Speaker 1: about nine or ten years of my life.
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  Speaker 2: When did you secure that gig as a Fox contributor?
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  Speaker 1: It had to be 1990. 9,000, maybe 2,000. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: goes way back. What were you even doing? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what was yours at WNBC in New York?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: And so I know a lot of these folks from– look,
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  Speaker 1: one of the big top executives to this day at
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  Speaker 1: Fox News was my producer in New York, Ron Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: He then went on to The O'Reilly Show and went
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  Speaker 1: on to be one of the top dogs. Speaking finally
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  Speaker 1: on the level of care, though, I got to ask
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  Speaker 1: you about your level of caring over this– battle royale
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  Speaker 1: over daylight saving time, President Trump has now picked a
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  Speaker 1: fight with Tom Cotton. He gave out his cell phone number.
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  Speaker 1: When he's really mad at you, you know, just ask
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  Speaker 1: the memory of the late Lindsey Graham. He gives out
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  Speaker 1: cell phone numbers. So he gave out Cotton's cell phone
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  Speaker 1: number saying, urge him to get this thing done. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: I can't even care a little bit. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I care some.
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  Speaker 2: What's going to get up in the middle of the night?
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  Speaker 2: Which means it kind of doesn't matter. It's going to
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  Speaker 2: be dark when I get up. No matter what. But
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  Speaker 2: coming up in a few weeks when we go on
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  Speaker 2: to daylight standard, when we go on to standard time again,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be, the sun's going to set at 545.
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  Speaker 2: And that's insane. The sun needs to be up when
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  Speaker 2: people are actually up and functioning. It's a safety issue.
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  Speaker 2: It's a recreational issue. It's a lifestyle issue. I want
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  Speaker 2: what Trump wants, and that's daylight saving time the way
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  Speaker 2: it is right now.
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  Speaker 1: All year long.
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  Speaker 2: 12 months a year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Fox News says it's a popular issue with voters
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  Speaker 1: and the president. There's a bill that passed the House.
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  Speaker 1: That enacts the change. But Tom Cotton is digging in.
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  Speaker 1: He's vowing to block it. And what he's saying, what's
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  Speaker 1: his objection?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the people are worried about the darkness
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  Speaker 2: in the morning when some of the kiddos are going
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  Speaker 2: to school. And I'm not blind to that at all.
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  Speaker 2: But everything's a trick. Slap some reflective tape on them.
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  Speaker 1: They're all right. Oh, he's back, everybody. Just put some tape.
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  Speaker 1: Get one of those little blinking lights, put it on
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  Speaker 1: their beanies, put a little hat on with the blinks light.
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  Speaker 2: They're fine.
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  Speaker 1: Kids like darkness. Give me a break. Kids, they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Let them dart among the cars. Kids like darkness. Mike Gallagher, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Thursday. See you on the podcast. I'm so glad
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  Speaker 1: to be back. And I miss the podcast almost as
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  Speaker 1: much as the talk show. So see you, Eminem Extra, Apple, Spotify, YouTube,
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: live at noon Eastern, 11 Central, and And I'll continue
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  Speaker 1: to school you about this season that they spent up
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  Speaker 1: in Salem, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: Not a full season. Not a full season.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're such a school mom. He's back.
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  Speaker 2: He's back.
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  Speaker 1: All's right with the world.